The criminal court Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has issued a ruling, which is appealable, by which it dismisses the appeal filed against the decision of the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to acquit a young man who in May 2021 stabbed his father in the Tenerife municipality of The lagoon.
The Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife He acquitted the defendant for lack of capacity of guilt of the crime of injuries with a weapon, and after declaring him the author of the act, he was imposed a security measure of internment in a psychiatric center with a maximum duration of five years.
The judgment It was issued in May 2022 and it is proven that around 4 a.m. on May 18, 2021, the defendant, with a criminal record for family violence and threats, appeared at his parents’ home in La Laguna. , and began to knock insistently on the door.
The door was opened by his father, to whom he had sent a message saying “You almost made it, it’s better that I don’t catch you before the ambulance, you’re a brainless faggot, you’re a piece of shit so they can lock you up for life in a psychiatric hospital, you and your family is going to drop a cigar that they are going to regret until grumbling, whipped by an electrified whip”.
The accused“in a great state of exaltation, he began to yell at him ‘Tell me now about the video, tell me now’ and when they saw the state he was in, they recommended that he go to bed, everyone going to bed.”
When the parents were in their room, the son, “surprisingly, entered carrying a knife and threw himself on his father, sticking it repeatedly into the abdomen and arms.”
The assault it ended suddenly after Julio’s mother yelled at him “you are not a murderer”.
As a result of the attack, the defendant suffered a 1-centimeter wound on the anterior side of the left hemitox at the level of the 9th-10th intercostal space, wounds on the inner side of the left arm, on the finger at the level of the phalanx, leaving as sequelae an arthritic deformity in the third left hand finger and various scars on the arms, hands and hemithorax and loss of sensitivity and some limitation of mobility in the hand.
The father took 96 days to heal, 21 of them preventative and required precise surgical medical treatment and rehabilitation.
At the time of the events, the accused was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia with conductive personality disorder and harmful use of cannabis, and he was suffering a psychotic episode that kept him detached from reality.
